It was a light rainy night, and a family banquet had just been held in Chunhe Palace. The night was getting darker, and the wives of the clan bowed to say goodbye. In a moment, only a few scattered tea cigarettes were left on the several-foot-long beams and four golden walls. , on the high platform, the queen sat alone, looking at the drizzle outside the palace door in trance.
"Your Majesty, ladies and gentlemen, you have already gone far. I will help you back to the Changchun Palace to change your clothes!" A female official wearing a light pink narrow-sleeved shirt and a flowered turban on her head bowed forward.
After hearing this, she waited for a while, and then stood up and walked out of the palace with the help of the maid. The misty drizzle outside floated in the slanting wind and stuck to her bun. She walked along the corridor for a while without realizing it. His sleeves were soaked in moisture and stuck together. She stood back and leaned on the railing, looking into the distance. The fragrant spring garden was being moistened by the drizzle, and people holding umbrellas could faintly pass through the bamboo leaves.
After looking intently for a long time, I could tell that it was a boy and girl who were gathered around the pond looking at the koi in the water. The boy held an umbrella in his left hand and hid a sprig of white peony root in his right hand behind his back. He didn't dare to give it to her for a long time, leaving it up to her. Jumping and jumping, he led the way around several turns.
"Who are those two people?" she asked.
"Your Majesty, those are the Princess of Liang and the Prince Consort!"
She looked down at the two of them having fun. This scene seemed familiar, and her eyes gradually became moist: "Oh! Fifth girl! I didn't recognize her, so I told her to go back early. The spring wind and rain are the most hurtful, so as not to catch the cold."
The maid was about to step forward, but she saw the man handing the peony flowers to the woman, and the two walked away sweetly, side by side. Through the round hole in the rockery, I could only see the queen, dressed in rich clothes and brocade clothes, standing alone by the golden corridor, watching the two people's return, despite the slanting wind and drizzle outside the corridor and the cold spring.
At the third watch of the night, flute songs are still playing in the front hall. The music is clear and graceful, and the melody is slow and wordless. When the sound rises and falls, sometimes it is as ethereal as a valley, sometimes as radical as a clear spring, and it seems to express all the joys and sorrows of the world.
"It's Empress Dowager De's Zhaoming Palace!" Just as she was about to ask where the string music came from, the female official next to her quickly answered.
"I thought I was lonely, but I am alone!" She shook the pearls in her black hair, lowered her head and chuckled.
I only looked at the red walls and green tiles of the palace, and the luxuriant grass. From time to time, there were pairs of swallows holding mud in their mouths. The people in the palace lived a life of gold and jade, but their hearts were already empty. , the queen sneered once or twice, waved her sleeves helplessly and left.
In the Fu'an Hall, which came late, there were two separate sets of lamp stands on the left and right sides of the hall. Large and small lamp stands and candlesticks were inlaid on them. When the lamps were lit, they looked like stars hanging on the branches. On the high platform, the emperor stood in front of the desk with his hands behind his back. Wearing a long-sleeved uniform with her hair hanging down to her shoulders, she was anxiously waiting for something.
A rush of footsteps came, calling back his thoughts. He quickly turned around and looked at the eunuch, Xingguo, bowing in front of him: "Everyone, I have just summoned the imperial concubine in the name of the queen. She is outside the palace." Waiting!"
"Please invite the imperial concubine to come in!" Suddenly a light flashed in his eyes, and he hurriedly waved around.
The candle swayed in the dim light, and a gust of spring breeze came, and Samao walked in wearing a hairpin dress. At that moment, the emperor's eyes never wandered anywhere else.
The woman wears a pale yellow Xiaying gauze rose-scented bra with thin cicada wings, a coat with dark butterfly silver-patterned sleeves, a pearl-trimmed Xiapei in front, and a white jade ribbon hanging from the corner. When she bows, she can only see her misty temples. The two strands of jade hairpins on the wind servant girl's head are intertwined in front of the shoulders.
When he raised his head, his face was blooming with flowers, his eyes were turning like stars, and his eyebrows were as fine as a painting. He only suspected that the immortals in the cave had fallen into the mortal world, and it was precisely the jade arms that waved their graceful posture, and the golden shoes that were fragrant before they arrived.
"I have met your Majesty! Long live your Majesty,"
Her one or two chirps made the emperor even more distraught. He hurriedly came forward and gently helped her up in front of the entire palace, but she immediately retracted her hand, nodded slightly and stood up: "Concubine, I am here to serve as queen." The empress ordered us to come here, and the eunuch said, "The empress is waiting here, and I just came here. I didn't know that your majesty is here, and I hope that your majesty will atone for my sins!"
"I summoned you, Sa Mao. Don't be afraid. It's just you and me now. No need to be formal!" After saying that, he gently raised his hand and placed it on her shoulder, his tone as gentle as Bobo's. Spring water.
She quickly took a few steps back as if she was frightened, knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, if nothing happens to Your Majesty, I will leave this concubine."
In panic, she held her arms and bowed away in panic, but was pulled by him before she had taken two steps.
He returned and was pulled into his arms: "Samao, don't you know my affection for you these years?"
"Your Majesty, atone for your sins. How can I, a concubine, be in His Majesty's eyes?" She turned her head away stubbornly.
He roughly pulled her head over with his hands and looked at her with tears in her eyes: "I don't care what your status is, I treat you sincerely! You come to my palace and become my queen, I will depose the queen right away, so what? ?ah?"
"Your Majesty, you are drunk!"
He smelled of alcohol and hugged her with a blushing face. She couldn't breathe in his arms, and when she took a hairpin from her hair and stabbed it at her cheek, she said: "Your Majesty, don't let me go, concubine." I am willing to die in Fu'an Palace."...
At this time, he saw that the tip of the hairpin had already penetrated her flesh, and then he slowly let her go.
She straightened her clothes, held up the beaded ornaments in her bun, and stood upright in front of her: "I have a husband, and King Xun has finished Yan Yuan. I will not leave him unless I die! The empress, Duanli Shuhui, has since In order to lead the Sixth Palace and bring peace to the clan, I have never done anything wrong in treating my superiors and subordinates respectfully. Your majesty’s words of deposing the queen are really hurtful and frightening to my concubines.”
"What are you worried about? Whatever she can do, you can do too! She's just a queen, with only one title," the emperor took a step further.
"Your Majesty's words are so light. Could it be that Your Majesty doesn't know what fifteen years is? First she was the royal concubine, and then she was the queen's son. In the past fifteen years, the empress has accompanied your Majesty through thousands of ups and downs, but your Majesty only said: One sentence and one title is really chilling,"
She knelt on the ground, supporting her straight waist. The hall was empty and silent, and then she looked at Samao. She had a pair of charming eyes, as tender as water, but she had integrity in her bones.
Just outside the palace, the queen was leaning against the screen, waving her sleeves full of red tears. The female official was hurriedly stroking her back, but she couldn't stop her heartbreak.
For a moment, there was a sound of clapping from outside Fu'an Hall: "Okay, okay, such a poignant and beautiful feeling, one can't ask for it, and the other would rather die!"
The emperor raised his head and saw that the person clapping her hands was the queen. He looked at her again. Under the heavy makeup and clothes, it was difficult to hide the tears she had just cried. She stepped in and took a look at the standing emperor, and then took another look. Kneeling, she felt a little sympathy in her heart.
"Queen, I warn you again, you are not allowed to enter my bedroom without being summoned! I don't want to see you!" The emperor waved his sleeves and scolded her in front of everyone, without ever avoiding suspicion or caring about the queen's face.
She waited for a short while, then she held Feng Guan and sat on the armrest, pointed at Samao and said: "Why, Your Majesty is still afraid that your concubine will see you? Are you blind all these years when you have been your concubine? You don't know anything about your Majesty's scandals. Do you know?"
"What do you mean?" asked the emperor.
"Your Highness the Queen, if there is nothing else, I will leave this concubine!" Samao quickly bowed and begged to retreat, but was summoned back by the Queen's hand.
Seeing that the woman in front of her didn't dare to raise her head even an inch, she laughed. The smile was extremely ironic. Listening to the laughter made people feel chilled. She took the tea cup by herself: "Sister, the imperial concubine, you haven't eaten yet. Cross the board! You go down first, someone outside the hall will take you to see it!"
Nasamao knew that the queen would not let her go, but it was better than the emperor forcing her. She knelt straight and kowtowed: "Yes, thank you for the reward!"
She turned around and left, her figure delicate but firm, and walked straight out the door.
"Sa Mao, don't go! Sa Mao..."
The emperor called her once or twice, but he could not call her back. He only saw her stubborn figure disappearing behind the screen.
He stood in front of the table with his hands behind his back in despair, sighing softly at the curtain. For a moment, he turned around and swept away the memorials and ink on the table. The memorials were piled on the ground, and the cinnabar from the inkstone was splashed on the ground. Bright red blood.
"Queen, do you still see me as the emperor in your eyes?" His thunderous rage frightened everyone in the palace to the point where they fell to their knees.
The queen was extraordinarily indifferent. She lifted up her skirt and walked beside him and said, "Your Majesty, please calm down!"
"I've really had enough of living like this. I want to abolish the queen. I want to abolish the queen..."
"Your Majesty, calm down!"
"Your Majesty, calm down!"
When he said something as a gentleman, everyone knelt down to advise him, but only
The queen stood alone in front of her, without saying anything to beg for mercy. She stood sideways, with her head raised and her chest held high.
"Don't they all say that the queen is in charge of the inner court? Come here, I have sent Baofu Chen. I want to take a look at this month's accounts! I want to see if you, the queen, are really qualified for the job." The emperor waved to the left and right.
After a moment of silence, only a woman wearing a small-sleeved skirt and a flower-headed hat was led in by Da Xingguo, kowtowed in front of her, and presented a small book timidly: "Everyone, this is the female official of Baofu. Please take a look at the relevant account books of Si Bao that have been settled this month!"
The emperor reached out to take it, opened it and looked at it. His eyes suddenly narrowed together, staring at one page of paper and trembling. Then he became angry and tore the book in half, and threw it hard at the queen: "Queen, I told you The palace is not allowed to give or receive private gifts to foreign ministers, so what do you mean by giving the gift to Wan Yanliang?"
In an instant, her fair skin turned slightly blue from being beaten by the corner of the booklet. The palace attendants were so frightened that they knelt down to save their lives.
"Your Majesty won't let me, so I don't dare to do it? The more your Majesty doesn't want to see something, the more I will do it! I want to make you hate me. How did your majesty hurt me? I must let your majesty taste it deeply. It feels like this!"
Her words were very hurtful and indeed heartbreaking. It was unknown when the friendship between them as husband and wife turned into the hostility they have today.
Her behavior deeply hurt his heart. He slapped the queen angrily with his hand, and she fell to the ground. Blue and red palm prints instantly appeared on her egg-like cheeks, and blood dripped from her red lips. On the royal carpet.
The love between husband and wife for more than ten years was knocked down by this palm, and the ground was covered with scattered pearls. At that moment, she really died. It was not her body that died, but her heart, her heart. I have admired him since I was a child and loved his heart.
He recovered after a long time and realized that he had struck hard, so he bent down to pull her in distress, but she raised her head slightly as she flicked her sleeves, only to see red tears falling from her eyes: "Don't be so hypocritical in front of me. I should have been slapped a long time ago, the only fault is that I was blind as a child!"
"Queen, you disappoint me so much!" he said.
